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Pushing for Net Access 
San Francisco Examiner - March 26, 2000
By: Jenny Strasburg

Activists point out that big profits await Web sites that accommodate the
disabled  

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/archive/2000/03/26/BUSINESS12362.dtl

Caption: Earl Johnson, Founder of the Sun Microsystem's Accessibility Team,
works to promote an Internet open to all users. 

Caption: Joyce Hakansson, Executive Director, Alliance for Technology Access,
San Rafael.
"It's like we've discovered a new population,  Hakansson says of growing
commercial interest in disabled Internet users. "Nobody likes to think of
ourselves as becoming disabled as we get older - unless it means getting one
of those blue parking passes."  

Caption: Mark Pinney, CEO, CanDo.com, a startup web site for disabled people
and their families, friends, and caregivers. 
"The emergence of the Internet is a major motivator for us. It allows us to
provide an environment for people that is so much more liberating than any
other medium before now."  

Caption: Randy Tamez, Americans with Disabilities Act consultant, San Jose.
"It's just in everybody's best interest to make sure everyone can get to
their web site," Tamez says of the convergence of government and
private-sector steps toward Internet accessibility. "You want to take
everybody's money. Let's just cut right down to it: Everybody's got some
money to spend." 



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